Gary Walts / The Post-Standard, 2010Carol Monroe, left, and her sister Linda Pierik with a photograph of their father, Frank Wlosinski who was missing in January 2010 and his body found in March of that year.

When Frank Wlosinski’s family realized he’d wandered off from his Fairmount home two Januarys ago, they sprang into action. They called the State Police. They began knocking on neighbors’ doors.

Two days after Wlosinski went missing, he made the news: a 74-year-old man with Alzheimer’s disease, wearing khaki pants and a green jacket, had left his Fairmont home without a word.

“We did have the media, but it was too late,” Wlosinski’s daughter, Linda Pierik, said Monday. Her father’s body was found two months later on the shores of Onondaga Lake.

The state Legislature is expected to pass a bill this week that would create an alert system to help families like Pierik’s find missing adults with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease.